Original language - French
Subtitles - None
Language menu - German
Running time - 177 minutes

We take our audience 200 years back in time. We let them experience the daily life in Seville. A society with strict social structures and full of strong contrasts: rich and poor; freedom and rules; love and violence. Unique is the passionate way how men and women, each in their own hemisphere, confront each other. Against this clear society-driven setting we tell the impossible love story of the gypsy Carmen and the soldier Don José. They cross social boundaries for this love, but the force of society makes a tragic ending unavoidable.

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Conductor – Ralf Weikert
Orchestra – Hamburger Symphoniker
Carmen – Nadia Krasteva
Don José – Bojidar Nikolov
Escamillo – Nikola Mijailovic 
Micaela – Arpiné Rahdjian  
Zuniga – Danilo Rigosa
Frasquita – Cornelia Zach
Mercedes – Alexandra Rivas
Dancairo – Andrea Martin
Remendado – Cesare Zamparino
Morales – Paolo Ruggiero
Choir – Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg & Extra-Chor des Theaters Lübeck
& Cantilene Kinderchor

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Direction - Bernard Broca † / Gemma van Zeventer
Scenery & costumes - Bernard Arnould
Flamenco choreography - Martina Wiesner
Light - Simon Mills
Sound - Stan Taal

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